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Killing in War
Killing in War
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Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to
what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for
example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.
Author: Jeff McMahan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/22/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780199603572
what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for
example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.
Author: Jeff McMahan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/22/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780199603572
About the Author
Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He works primarily in ethics and political philosophy, and occasionally in metaphysics and legal theory.
